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Courtland

#3,592 in 2025UnisexBoys' nameGirls' name

Meaning and linguistic origin unconfirmed

Courtland has been given to 4,100 babies in the U.S. since 1886. In 2025 it ranked #3,592 of 13,926 boys’ names in use. Its peak year was 1996, with 119 recorded. It's used for both sexes: 94% boys, 6% girls all-time.

Babies named Courtland, 2025

1 in 107,000

Courtland over time, 1880–2025

BoysGirls
05010015018801900192019401960198020002020

Based on births in the U.S. Babies given the name each year. Hover the chart — or focus it and use the arrow keys — for any year. Gaps mean the name was given fewer than 5 times that year; these counts are unpublished.

Girls or boys — Courtland over time

In 2025, Courtland went to 0% girls and 100% boys.

18862025

A sex is only published in years it reached five applications, so a stretch at 0% or 100% means the other side stayed under that floor — not that it was never used.

Courtland: meaning, origin, and history

Meaning and linguistic origin unconfirmed

Deeper origin not confirmed in the cited records

What Courtland means

Courtland is a given name.

The naming story behind Courtland

Wikidata records Courtland as a male given name. The entity identifier is Q1137810, and the classification was checked on 2026-10-20. The spelling matches a source label or alias exactly, without removing accents or linking it to a name merely because the letters look similar.

A database classification is different from an etymological explanation, so those questions remain open in the short meaning.

A modern root explanation needs an additional naming or linguistic reference.

American usage and historical context

In the United States, 3,855 boys were recorded with the name Courtland between 1886 and 2025. Its highest annual count was 119 in 1996; its best national rank was #947 in 1888.

Over 5 years its rank fell, from #3,504 in 2020 to #3,592 in 2025. Over 10 years its rank fell, from #2,817 in 2015 to #3,592 in 2025.

In the United States, 245 girls were recorded with the name Courtland between 1982 and 2024. Its highest annual count was 20 in 1997; its best national rank was #5,055 in 1995.

Sources & methodologyReferences, data & attribution

Meaning, origin, and language notes draw on the references below.

American popularity figures use published Social Security Administration records for this exact spelling. Counts below five for a name, sex, and year are omitted.

How common is Courtland?

Everything below is computed from the 2025 data — the most recent year available.

Among all babies, 2025
1 in 107,000
31 of 3,315,165 births
Among boys only
1 in 55,100
<0.01% of boys
Rank, 2025
#3,592
of 13,926 boys’ names in use
Coin-flip room size
74,127 kids
Even odds of a second one

Where Courtland sits on the popularity scale

Rarest published (5 a year)#1 — Liam (20,818)

Chance at least one other child shares the name

If the other children were drawn at random from the 2025 national name distribution. Real classrooms cluster by region and community, so treat these as a floor, not a ceiling.

Class of 20Under 1%
Class of 30Under 1%
Grade of 100Under 1%
School of 500Under 1%

Put another way: gather 74,127 children born in 2025 and it's an even bet that one of them is another Courtland. In a class of 30 the chance is Under 1%.

When Courtlands were born

Half of everyone ever recorded as Courtland was born before 1991 — so the typical Courtland is around 34 today.

Median birth year
1991
About 34 years old
Biggest decade
1990s
25.9% of all use
Born in the last 25 years
25.6%
Spread across generations
Recorded since 1950
3,185
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Choose a decade

1990s — 25.9% of all recorded uses (1,000).

Is Courtland rising or falling?

Rank movement and count movement can disagree — the number of distinct names in use keeps growing, so a name holding a steady count still slides down the list. Both are shown.

Rank vs 1 year ago
−421
Places dropped
Rank vs 5 years ago
−88
Places dropped
Rank vs 10 years ago
−775
Places dropped
Births vs 10 years ago
0.74×
Fewer babies than then
Share of its own peak
26.1%
Peak was 1996 (119)
Years since peak
29
Years
Year-to-year steadiness
Shifting
18.2% average annual change
Best rank ever
#947
1888

Spellings of Courtland

Courtland is the most-used spelling, taking 64.3% of the 6,000 babies given a near-identical spelling.

Grouped by closeness of spelling (up to two letter changes), same sex, with a floor on all-time use. It catches Sophia/Sofia and Aiden/Ayden, and misses spellings that sound alike but look different, like Sean and Shawn.

Where Courtland is used

Across 1910–2025, Courtland was most concentrated in Louisiana — about 1 in 20,000 boys, against 1 in 127,433 across all states with data. It was least common in Virginia (1 in —).

05 per 100,000

Most concentrated

  1. 1Louisiana1 in 20,000
  2. 2Georgia1 in 50,000
  3. 3Texas1 in 50,000
  4. 4Alabama1 in 100,000
  5. 5California1 in 100,000
  6. 6Florida1 in 100,000
  7. 7Mississippi1 in 100,000
  8. 8North Carolina1 in 100,000

Shading is the share of that state's recorded boys given this name, not the raw count — otherwise the map would just show which states are biggest. Unshaded states have no published records for this period. U.S. birth records suppress state-year counts below 5; state counts therefore don't add up to the national total. Every state links to its full rankings. Courtland has too little recent state data to map, so this covers all years from 1910.

Courtland around the world

Where Courtland ranks in official birth records elsewhere in the world. Rankings only — the number of births isn’t comparable between places, so it isn’t shown.

  • Canada
    1991–1997
    #1,945
    in 1997
  • South Australia
    1956–1996
    #540
    in 1996

Popularity data from Statistics Canada and Consumer and Business Services (South Australia). StatCan data under Statistics Canada Open Licence. CBS SA data under CC BY 4.0.

Notable people named Courtland

People whose public names include Courtland, backed by Wikidata given-name records and ordered by linked Wikimedia pages. The name may be a middle name.

People data from Wikidata (CC0). Fame is measured, not judged — the order reflects how widely each person is documented, not the U.S. birth records popularity this page is otherwise about.

Courtland by the numbers

The raw record for each sex the name is used for.

As a boy's name

Rank in 2025
#3,592
Trend vs 5 yrs ago
Down 88
Best rank ever
#947
1888
Peak year
1996
119 that year
First recorded
1886
Last recorded
2025
All-time count
3,855
Count in 2025
31

As a girl's name

Rank in 2025
Unranked
Trend vs 5 yrs ago
—
Best rank ever
#5,055
1995
Peak year
1997
20 that year
First recorded
1982
Last recorded
2024
All-time count
245
Count in 2025
Under 5

Names similar to Courtland

Matched on shared beginnings and endings, similar length, and comparable popularity.

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Names with a curve like Courtland

Not spelling — timing. These names rose, peaked and faded in the same years as Courtland, so they read as being from the same moment even when they look nothing alike.

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Sibling names for Courtland

Names from the same era and popularity tier — the two things that make a sibling set feel deliberate — skipping lookalike spellings and shared initials.

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